June 12, 2014 Thursday

Did some Pilates today.  Was going to walk but after dance lessons last night decided my feet would like a day off. 


Ezra chapter 5 about rebuilding the temple at Babylon.  God had stopped the building but now the Israelites thought they would rebuild it to honor the God of heaven and earth. King Darius was asked if this was legal, so they had to go back in history to check.  The study writer titled this study Keep Calm and Carry on. 


On this day:
1982 - We were all pretty excited about a boat called Love It.  It was a 30' Shadowcraft catamaran hull with twin Chevy engines that broke a lot of speed records.  I followed the circuit that year, but on this day the race was out on Lake St Clair.  My friend Doc Hyland took a bunch of my friends from work out on his boat so we could watch the race, they won.  Whether it is boats, cars or horse racing or whatever, we love a winner don't we?
1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance. Some people were doing something a little less self serving on this day.


Parenting - How do you raise a child that is not self serving?  Do you think todays youth/young people are self centered?  The church does a good job of reminding us of what is important, but if you don't go to church what do you do to keep your child from being a hedonist?  Or does it matter to you?  Not trying to be judgemental, just wondering what the standards are today.


Book Club - Finished Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough.  On the whole, it was a good book with great historical information about an important time in our country.  Theodore Roosevelt was a truly, interesting person.  This guy was a hedonist.


Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire:

Security[edit]

Since 2004, when virtually all prisoners of Abidjan were released from prison, insecurity has increased significantly: increase in crimes and misdemeanors, increased drug seizures. Besides the presence of the police, gendarmerie, the impartial forces (UNOCI whose headquarters are in Attécoubé and a large base to Biétry), French soldiers based in Port-Bouet and the Ivorian army, were created in the 2000 by the CECOS and several private security firms.
In 2007, Permanent Danger by Pierre Laba a film about the laxity of the police against the banditry in major African cities in the image of the Ivorian capital was out in cinema

Police[edit]

Abidjan is divided into districts, each of which has a police station. The municipal police and national police are distinguished.
The police's training center (National Police Academy) located in the town of Cocody, where all police are trained. They are recruited by competitive examination held by the police administration. The policy includes several sections, it is the BAE (Anti Riot Squad), whose base is located in the Yopougon north of the city, the CRS (Republican Security Company), whose main base is located in Williamsville (Adjame) also includes a secondary base called CRS2 which is located in zone 4 in the town of Marcory (central capital).
The Force and CECOS (Command Center Security Operations) accompany the police.
The main base of the gendarmerie is Agban (common Adjamé), another in Abobo and Kumasi, It also has training school "School de Gendarmerie" in Cocody and the city.  Good information if you are travelling here. 


Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable!    Happy Birthday TY!!!